“Man seems merely dust postponed: the sublime as an encounter - pleasurable, intoxicating, even - with human weakness in the face of strength, age and size of the universe.” MenHumansSeemsAgeFacesUniverseWeaknessSizeDustEncountersSublime Book:The Art of Travel Source: The Art of Travel
“Yet the most pervasive error one encounters in contemporary arguments about belief in God-especially, but not exclusively, on the atheist side-is the habit of conceiving of God simply as some very large object or agency within the universe, or perhaps alongside the universe, a being among other beings, who differs from all other beings in magnitude, power, and duration, but not ontologically, and who is related to the world more or less as a craftsman is related to an artifact.” WorldUniverseBeliefSidesObjectsHabitArgumentErrorsAtheistContemporaryRelatedAgencyEncountersMagnitudeDurationBelief In GodCraftsmanArtifactsConceiving Author:David Bentley Hart
“And I guess I'm a kid at heart in that when I go for entertainment, I want to be totally transported. I want to go somewhere else; I want to encounter different things, different beings, different universes. And so I love that aspect of being able to play those things in both 'True Blood' and in 'American Horror Story.'” WantHeartDifferentPlayStoriesKidsAbleUniverseBloodHorrorAspectEntertainmentEncountersDifferent ThingsSomewhere ElseBeing DifferentHorror StoriesAmerican Horror StoryDifferent UniversesKid At Heart Author:Denis O'Hare